Thousands of commuters in the national capital were stranded at several Metro stations during morning rush hours today as trains were delayed by at least an hour due to a technical problem. Services on the over-crowded Line 3 that connects Dwarka sub-city with Noida City Centre and Anand Vihar were affected due to intermittent Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) server failure.
State-owned MTNL has raised Rs 2,500 crore from Axis Bank to pay Rs 6,564 crore to the government towards 3G spectrum. "We have raised Rs 2,500 crore as short-term loan from Axis Bank and the remaining would be paid from the internal accruals," MTNL Director (Finance) Anita Soni told PTI. MTNL operates in Delhi and Mumbai and was given 3G spectrum about a
In a setback to mobile operators, the Delhi High Court today asked them to submit their account books to the apex auditor CAG, which has been asked by the government to check under-reporting of revenue for calculating the licence fee. A division bench comprising justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Valmiki Mehta directed telecom operators to provide details of their revenue sharing to
The National Capital Region (NCR) will have four swanky state-of-the-art Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) by March next year which will help in reducing the hardships faced in filing applications for the document. Two PSKs will be located in Delhi, including one in east Delhi, besides two in Ghaziabad and Gurgaon. These facilities are likely to be set up before the end of this fiscal
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that after Bangalore, two more centres that handle I-T returns digitally would be set up at Pune and Maneasar. The Finance Minister also asked the Income Tax Department to partner with the corporate sector to automatise its non-core processes, so as to achieve economy of scale. "I am happy to announce that the Incom
Social networking site Facebook has been adjudged as the most visited site on the web in April by a list compiled by search engine Google. According to the list of top 1,000 websites, Facebook scored more than 540 million unique visitors in April, reaching a whopping 35.20 per cent of the all the Internet consumers. Besides, the company served 570 billion page view
After Pakistan, Bangladesh has now blocked social networking site Facebook for hosting pages featuring blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammad and "obnoxious" images of the country`s leaders. No official announcement was made yet on the decision but the Daily Star newspaper quoted an unnamed Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission official as saying that
In an innovative move, biometric cards will be given to those working under NREGA to bring more transparency in the implementation of the Centre`s employment guarantee programme, facing complaints of gross irregularities and malpractices in many parts of the country. A decision to prepare biometric database of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers "within 12 months" has recently
Delhi Government will soon sign a pact with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for smooth implementation of its ambitious project to issue identification numbers to the city`s residents, who will perhaps be among the first to get the identity proof. Delhi Cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, while approving an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
A junior British Minister has been warned over posting controversial comments, including one in which she reveals doubts about her new boss and another in which she criticises a former Royal Family member, on her internet diary linked to micro-blogging site Twitter. Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone has been asked by senior British civil servants not to "write freely&q
Mothers in Asia -- especially India -- are becoming increasingly Internet-savvy, be it for shopping or keeping in touch with family and friends, a survey revealed. This trend will create a new target audience group for digital advertisers, it added. As per the study conducted by Microsoft Advertising and Starcom MediaVest, 87 per cent of the mothers surveyed in Ind
An online mechanism and toll-free helpline could soon be put in place to help children register their complaints with regard to violation of their education rights as guaranteed under the Right To Education Act. According to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), which has been mandated to moni
Information technology should be used extensively for expediting cases under the Right to Information Act, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said here today. Information technology should be used for RTI to make it simple for public and the State Government to obtain and share information effectively, Chavan said, at a meeting held at Mantralaya with Information Commissione
A tweet here, a facebook comment there and blogs all over have compelled corporates to sit up and take note of social networking sites as employees use the cyberspace tool to air grievances, make suggestions and lobby for their demands, in the changing landscape of workplace. "The internet is buzzing with social media as employees now-a-days are increasingly using social net
Meet the latest entrant to Twitter - Pakistan`s Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who has taken to the social networking site with aplomb while tweeting on topics as diverse as his colourful ties and a court order upholding the freedom of Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed. And having been on Twitter for little more than a week, Malik even has a suggestion for his Indian counterpart
External affairs minister S M Krishna today unveiled four Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) as part of the Passport Seva Project in Karnataka to ensure speedy delivery of the document. Two PSKs in Bangalore and one each in Mangalore and Hubli were simultaneously launched here under the project that would ensure that an applicant gets the passport three days after his or her police ver
Telecom minister A Raja today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and is believed to have discussed the progress on the implementation of the Sam Pitroda panel report to revive the state-run telco BSNL. According to sources, the telecom commission, the highest decision-making wing of the department of telecom, is likely to consider the proposal of BSNL disinvestment and launching a
Getting a passport will soon be easy with the government opening `Passport Seva Kendras` (PSK) in 77 centres across the country in a year. The first such PSK will be inaugurated in Bangalore on Friday followed by six others by June. One will be a pilot project for three months after which such kiosks will be opened all over the country. Seven PSKs will run for next
HCL Infosystems today said it has bagged an order to implement country`s first smart card based solutions for Public Distribution System in the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The project will see distribution of smart card based ration cards to the families living below poverty line in the region. These smart cards will capture all biometric, tax, demographic and personal informa
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world`s largest social networking site Facebook today overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced. In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook`s 26-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined "a pr
